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Scientist/Engineer. Very much form-determined. Editor @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social. he/him. *All typos are my own*.
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I wrote about how studying Marx, the Black Radical tradition, and the Cappadocian Fathers led me to rediscover my faith, forgive the woman who killed my mother, embrace prison abolition, and champion the idea that none are saved unless *all* are saved!
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January 28, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I wrote about how studying Marx, the Black Radical tradition, and the Cappadocian Fathers led me to rediscover my faith, forgive the woman who killed my mother, embrace prison abolition, and champion the idea that none are saved unless *all* are saved!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/forgiving-my...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/forgiving-my...
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what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
January 28, 2026 at 7:38 AM
what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
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"gender is a social construct" is so true that even the right wingers have adopted this line, but only to move towards naturalizing sex & naturalizing misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia to sex. thus, it has little political slogan value today. "sex is socially constructed" is what is provocative
January 27, 2026 at 12:48 PM
"gender is a social construct" is so true that even the right wingers have adopted this line, but only to move towards naturalizing sex & naturalizing misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia to sex. thus, it has little political slogan value today. "sex is socially constructed" is what is provocative
Currently writing a short piece on “dialectical biology” and I need to get some things out of my system as it probably won’t make it. You can really do a longue-durée account of naturphilosophie directly to the various materialisms; what unites all of them is natural history.
January 27, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Currently writing a short piece on “dialectical biology” and I need to get some things out of my system as it probably won’t make it. You can really do a longue-durée account of naturphilosophie directly to the various materialisms; what unites all of them is natural history.
Of interest for people who want to see how Adorno deduces how neo-Kantians treat teleology as merely heuristic, how Horkheimer thinks error and development, and some cool connections in the intro on post-Kantian philsci!
January 25, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Of interest for people who want to see how Adorno deduces how neo-Kantians treat teleology as merely heuristic, how Horkheimer thinks error and development, and some cool connections in the intro on post-Kantian philsci!
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The regime better watch out, I hear the Democrats are now planning to send up to *three* strongly-worded letters for every street lynching the White House orders
January 24, 2026 at 5:11 PM
The regime better watch out, I hear the Democrats are now planning to send up to *three* strongly-worded letters for every street lynching the White House orders
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some exciting news!
January 24, 2026 at 3:21 PM
some exciting news!
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In our pragmatic and technocratic age, oriented toward vocational training and widespread recourse to generative AI in the classroom and the workplace, Ilyenkov’s “Our Schools Must Teach How To Think!” is such an important work of critical pedagogy!
January 24, 2026 at 3:16 PM
In our pragmatic and technocratic age, oriented toward vocational training and widespread recourse to generative AI in the classroom and the workplace, Ilyenkov’s “Our Schools Must Teach How To Think!” is such an important work of critical pedagogy!
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The fact that they deleted the article is proof to the UAE that “Israel” is an effective stick it can wag at the region, and they’ll fall in line.
Yesterday, Saudi newspaper Aljazira pulled down an article by Saudi academic and politician Ahmed Al Tuwaijri, in which he criticises the UAE, describing it as a Zionist Trojan horse in the region.
It was removed after Israeli reporter Barak Ravid complained about its anti-Israel/antisemitic tone.
It was removed after Israeli reporter Barak Ravid complained about its anti-Israel/antisemitic tone.
January 24, 2026 at 10:35 AM
The fact that they deleted the article is proof to the UAE that “Israel” is an effective stick it can wag at the region, and they’ll fall in line.
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Excited about having had this conversation with comrade Sebastian on working through the past with Ernst Bloch's reflecting on various issues: delay and simultaneity, time out of joint, and floating timelines colliding in the Now Time! @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social
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Episode 10: Working Through the Past with Ernst Bloch | Critical Theory Working Group
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January 23, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Excited about having had this conversation with comrade Sebastian on working through the past with Ernst Bloch's reflecting on various issues: delay and simultaneity, time out of joint, and floating timelines colliding in the Now Time! @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social
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It’s genuinely impossible not to feel like you are being chocked when thinking about the Arabian peninsula and the Maghreb. We are not only caged, but actively poisoned. It’s debilitating.
January 20, 2026 at 1:01 PM
It’s genuinely impossible not to feel like you are being chocked when thinking about the Arabian peninsula and the Maghreb. We are not only caged, but actively poisoned. It’s debilitating.
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Finished translating the lecture & discussion notes from the ISR internal seminar on Horkheimer’s “State Capitalism” essay—the early draft of “Authoritarian State,” co-authored with Adorno! check it out 🔗 ⬇️
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January 20, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Finished translating the lecture & discussion notes from the ISR internal seminar on Horkheimer’s “State Capitalism” essay—the early draft of “Authoritarian State,” co-authored with Adorno! check it out 🔗 ⬇️
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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Löwenthal is credited as a co-author of the first 3 Theses of Elements of Anti-Semitism in the DoE Preface, but wasn’t until I found these unpublished notes—on Projection, Reification, Fascism—that I appreciated how weird & important an interlocutor he was for A&H. open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Projection, Reification, Fascism—Leo Löwenthal (1943/44)
Unpublished Sketches for “Elements of Anti-Semitism: Limits of Enlightenment.”
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January 16, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Löwenthal is credited as a co-author of the first 3 Theses of Elements of Anti-Semitism in the DoE Preface, but wasn’t until I found these unpublished notes—on Projection, Reification, Fascism—that I appreciated how weird & important an interlocutor he was for A&H. open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Okay. I’m returning back to my proper form; finally feeling my brain restarting again.
January 14, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Okay. I’m returning back to my proper form; finally feeling my brain restarting again.
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Recently stumbled on a more or less complete, unpublished Adorno fragment on fascist propaganda & mimesis while looking thru archival materials from the early phases (ca. 42/43) of writing Dialectic of Enlightenment. Just finished a translation—you can read it here! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Adorno: On Propaganda (ca. 1942/43)
Translation of an unpublished fragment from the materials for ‘Elements of Anti-Semitism.’
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January 14, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Recently stumbled on a more or less complete, unpublished Adorno fragment on fascist propaganda & mimesis while looking thru archival materials from the early phases (ca. 42/43) of writing Dialectic of Enlightenment. Just finished a translation—you can read it here! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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phases.substack.com/p/the-price-... part 2 mostly just reading labban on OCC and uneven value transfer, with particular attention to what he calls the 'negative territoriality' of extractive industries/primary production
The Price-Value Discrepancy in Marx's Capital and Its Relevance for Understanding Oil, Part II
The Result of Variations in the Organic Composition of Capital on the Transfer of Value through Exchange
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January 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
phases.substack.com/p/the-price-... part 2 mostly just reading labban on OCC and uneven value transfer, with particular attention to what he calls the 'negative territoriality' of extractive industries/primary production
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re-translation of “Philosophy & Critical Theory,” Horkheimer’s first intervention into the earliest debates about the concept of critical theory, which he defines in connection with the concept & process of socialization—Kritische Theorie als Vergesellschaftung!
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Philosophy and Critical Theory (1937).
Re-translation of Horkheimer’s Marxisant intervention in early debates on ‘Critical Theory.’
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January 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
re-translation of “Philosophy & Critical Theory,” Horkheimer’s first intervention into the earliest debates about the concept of critical theory, which he defines in connection with the concept & process of socialization—Kritische Theorie als Vergesellschaftung!
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phases.substack.com/p/the-price-... Part 1 of 3 posts on price, value, and oil. this part is just about getting the transformation problem out of the way
The Price-Value Discrepancy in Marx's Capital and Its Relevance for Understanding Oil, Part I
Notes on The Transformation Problem
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January 6, 2026 at 10:41 PM
phases.substack.com/p/the-price-... Part 1 of 3 posts on price, value, and oil. this part is just about getting the transformation problem out of the way
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back just to say I’ve finished about half of the re-translation—posted it earlier today! includes one of my favorite paragraphs of Horkheimer’s that I’ve worked on in a long time (one of those where all the communism comes rushing in all at once!)
January 5, 2026 at 6:05 AM
back just to say I’ve finished about half of the re-translation—posted it earlier today! includes one of my favorite paragraphs of Horkheimer’s that I’ve worked on in a long time (one of those where all the communism comes rushing in all at once!)
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Speaking of inexcusable: the EU out of the gate with a nonsensical statement.
I have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela.
The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)
The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)
January 3, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Speaking of inexcusable: the EU out of the gate with a nonsensical statement.